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Elysia subornata A. E. Verril 1901

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10. Elysia subornata A.E. Verril, 1901 (Fig. 2J)

Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta, 21.VI.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. V. Padula (MZSP 97050), 13.II.2010, five specimens, 1-3 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 310), 28.II.2010, two specimens, 4 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado; 14.IV.2010, three specimens, 7-10 mm (body length),leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 264 a). 07.IV.2011, two specimens, 8-19 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 282). 05.I.2012, one specimen (lost), 8 mm (body length). 27.IV.2013, five specimens, 2-10 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado.

Description: Elongated and cylindrical body. Background color light green, speckled with black dots all over the body. Head prominent with black eyes at the base of the rhinophores, which is oblique, elongated and curled. Rhinophores prostrate to the sides, with a groove on the anterior side between them. From the base to the apex lined with small light beige tubercles.On the back there is a visible and voluminous pericardium with tubercles over it.

Geographic distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, Savage Islands. Western Atlantic: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, CuraÇao, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Puerto Rico, St. Martin / St. Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Thomas, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Brazil (Alagoas, Ceará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) (Marcus, 1957, as E. cauze; Padula, 2008; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Delgado, Marlon, Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais, Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de, Padula, Vinicius, Bahia, Juliana & Brandão, Simone Nunes, 2022, Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-26 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62 on page 8, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063, http://zenodo.org/record/7617672

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References

  • Marcus, E. 1957. On opisthobranchia from Brazil (2). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 43 (292): 390 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1957. tb 01559. x.
  • Padula, V. 2008. Notes on the morphology of Elysia subornata and Oxynoe antillarum (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa) from the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Strombus, 15 (2): 19 - 25.
  • Galvao-Filho, H.; Araujo, A.; Silva, F.; Azevedo, V.; Meirelles, C. A. O. & Matthews-Cascon, H. 2015. Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from a poorly known area in North-east Brazil. Filling gaps in Atlantic distributions. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8 (e 115). https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267215000494.